

She received her doctorate in public health leadership in 2018 and her Master of Public Health in 2009 from the College of Public Health at UAMS and her Master of Public Service from the Clinton School of Public Service in 2009. Her research and public health work have been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Health Resources and Services Administration, and the United States Agency for International Development.Įmail: English, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.P.S., is faculty in the UAMS Office of Community Health and Research and an assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Callaghan-Koru has expertise in mixed-methods research and program evaluation and extensive experience with semi-structured interview and survey research methods. She has led implementation research to study and support maternal and child health programs in multiple countries and is an alumnus of the National Institutes of Health’s Training Institute on Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health. Her research is focused on improving maternal and child health through the application of implementation science methods to support quality improvement and innovative service delivery. She holds a doctorate and a Master of Health Science in public health from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School and has previously held full-time faculty appointments at Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. telemedicine, remote monitoring) can improve health care access and health outcomes in underserved and minority communities, as well as examining how the social determinants of health affect health care access and health outcomes, particularly for people with cardiometabolic disease (e.g., diabetes) and cancer in rural and minority populations.Įmail: Callaghan-Koru joined the Department of Internal Medicine as an associate professor in 2022. Her research focuses on how interventions utilizing medical technology (e.g. After four months as a postdoctoral fellow, she was appointed assistant professor in UAMS’ College of Medicine. Andersen began a postdoctoral fellowship at UAMS in the College of Medicine’s Office of Community Health and Research. A first-generation non-traditional college student, she entered the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in psychology (with distinction, 2015) and a master’s (2017) and doctorate (2020) in sociology with a focus on health and medicine. Her experiences working with patients sparked a curiosity about the causes of health disparities, leading her to return to school to pursue higher education. Jennifer Andersen, Ph.D., previously worked as a patient financial counselor where she saw the effects of health disparities in underserved communities. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.Community Health and Research Resources.


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